#roomformanchester was the first reaction the citizens of Manchester gave to the incident at Manchester arena. After the shut of Victoria Train Station, the wandering of explosion-stricken population gave rise to the trend #roomformanchester with residents offering rooms and places for the victims. Besides, taxi drivers aided the people riding th...

According to Iran’s Interior Ministry, Rouhani won 23 million (or 57 percent) of the total vote, while his main rival, Ebrahim Raisi, received 15.7 million (38.5 percent).
During the past decades, Iranian officials have praised the country’s democratic elections and huge election turnout. They repeatedly urge citizens to vote.
Soon after th...

The White House said on Saturday that it has concluded an arms deal with Riyadh worth $350 billion over 10 years, with $110 billion set to take effect immediately.
It hailed the deal as “a significant expansion of… [the] security relationship” between the two close allies.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ...

Kaveh L. Afrasiabi is a prominent Iranian-American political scientist and author of several books -- on Iran, Islam, ecology, Middle East, UN reform, as well as poetry and fiction -- and numerous articles in international newspapers and journals. In a short interview with Manquehue Institute, Mr. Afrasiabi expressed his ideas about the election ...

The presidential election in Iran will be held this Friday to have the people vote for one among the five remaining candidates. One of candidates, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, relinquished from the elections in support for another candidate, Mr. Raeesi, who is claimed to have close ties and common agenda. Iran is a country in the Middle East, a geopol...

Here’s the full transcript of the interview:
How has the Islamic Revolution affected other regional nations in pursuit of democracy? How do you compare the establishment of democracy in Iran to Arab countries in the Middle East?
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi: It goes without saying that the revolution's replacement of a one-man dictatorship with a theoc...

President Donald Trump’s imminent travel to Saudi Arabia has multiple overtones for the countries within the region. The meeting between Trump and deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman takes place while the preparations for a big deal of arms between the two countries exceeding millions of dollars has been made so far.
Mohammad Bin Salman is...

Donald Trump launched the missile attack on Syrian airbase under the influence of her daughter, Ivanka. This was revealed by his brother, Eric, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. The United States had claimed that the strike was a response to the chemical attack against Khan Sheikhoun, the Syrian town. No side has yet claimed the chemical ...

Donald Trump presidency has had multiple meanings for different groups; his family, his nation, and the Arab world. The President of the United States had no good relationship during his campaigns with Saudi Arabia, at least apparently, but if we take a deeper look at the former businessman’s relationship with the oil-rich country, new informat...

Hours after James Comey, the former director of CIA, was removed from his office by Donald Trump, Julian Assange invited him to work with WikiLeaks. Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks, the controversial website which releases classified information.
This is while Edward Snowden called Trump’s order a “political interference” by Trump. The...